diff --git a/router/peers.go b/router/peers.go
index 1051325d..43f328b5 100644
--- a/router/peers.go
+++ b/router/peers.go
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ type Peers struct {
 	onGC    func(*Peer)
 }
 
-type UnknownPeersError struct {
+type UnknownPeerError struct {
+	Name PeerName
 }
 
 type NameCollisionError struct {
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ func (peers *Peers) decodeUpdate(update []byte) (newPeers map[PeerName]*Peer, de
 			}
 			// Update refers to a peer which we have no knowledge
 			// of. Thus we can't apply the update. Abort.
-			err = UnknownPeersError{}
+			err = UnknownPeerError{remoteName}
 		})
 		if decErr != nil && decErr != io.EOF {
 			err = decErr
diff --git a/router/peers_test.go b/router/peers_test.go
index ebda6350..ecaa07b2 100644
--- a/router/peers_test.go
+++ b/router/peers_test.go
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 // TODO we should also test:
 //
 // - applying an incremental update, including the case where that
-//   leads to an UnknownPeersError
+//   leads to an UnknownPeerError
 //
 // - the "improved update" calculation
 //
diff --git a/router/router.go b/router/router.go
index 8bceeff9..df31aa07 100644
--- a/router/router.go
+++ b/router/router.go
@@ -372,10 +372,11 @@ func (router *Router) Gossip() []byte {
 // or nil if nothing in the received message was new
 func (router *Router) OnGossip(buf []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 	newUpdate, err := router.Peers.ApplyUpdate(buf)
-	if _, ok := err.(UnknownPeersError); err != nil && ok {
+	if _, ok := err.(UnknownPeerError); err != nil && ok {
 		// That update contained a peer we didn't know about; we
 		// ignore this; eventually we should receive an update
 		// containing a complete topology.
+		log.Println("topology gossip contained", err)
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/router/utils.go b/router/utils.go
index 0a6fe57c..1387e134 100644
--- a/router/utils.go
+++ b/router/utils.go
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ func (ftbe FrameTooBigError) Error() string {
 	return fmt.Sprint("Frame too big error. Effective PMTU is ", ftbe.EPMTU)
 }
 
-func (upe UnknownPeersError) Error() string {
-	return fmt.Sprint("Reference to unknown peers")
+func (upe UnknownPeerError) Error() string {
+	return fmt.Sprint("Reference to unknown peer ", upe.Name)
 }
 
 func (nce NameCollisionError) Error() string {